Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s arrest at an ICE facility on Friday thrust him into the national spotlight as a fighter of President Donald Trump just weeks before New Jersey Democrats are to decide ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested outside Delaney Hall, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in New Jersey. Photo: Popular Democracy in Action/ Storyful.

NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark says he was held for five hours, his mugshot taken, and fingerprinted. He says, despite that, he will be back here when the time comes ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has filed a lawsuit over his arrest at a federal immigration detention center. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump ally, interim U.S. Attorney ...

After hours in federal custody, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was released May 9 and spoke to a large crowd outside a Department of Homeland Security building.

Mayor Ras Baraka speaks to the media in Newark, New Jersey, on May 15, 2025. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images What To Know. Baraka accused Habba of authorizing his arrest despite evidence that he had ...

NEWARK, N.J. — Newark Mayor Ras Baraka briefly returned Tuesday to the gates of the federal immigration detention center where he was arrested last week on trespassing charges.

Ras J. Baraka, the mayor of Newark, accused the Department of Justice on Thursday of selectively prosecuting him nearly a week after federal officials arrested him and charged him with trespassing.

Newark, N.J., Mayor Ras Baraka (D) on Tuesday called his arrest last month “egregious” and “authoritarian,” as he made the case that interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jer… ...

A popular insight regarding the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka alarms that if federal agents can manhandle and take into custody such a high-profile Black man, imagine what awaits an under-the-r… ...

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka's arrest at the hands of Homeland Security agents outside Delaney Hall on Friday night was pure gold in terms of political theater. Everyone who found themselves in the ...